About Us

Women’s World Banking is the global nonprofit devoted to giving more low-income women access to the financial tools and resources they require to build security and prosperity. For more than 35 years we have worked with financial institutions to show them the benefit of investing in women as customers, and as leaders. We continue to equip these institutions with in-depth market research, with sustainable financial products and consumer education to meet women’s needs.

Women are typically good clients and reinvest in their families and communities. Yet women remain an underserved market—so we equip financial institutions around the world to serve them. We perform market research to learn what financial products and information low-income women need, and develop innovative, practical ways for institutions to do business with women.

Women’s World Banking, Inc. is a non-profit corporation devoted to expanding the economic assets, participation, and power of low-income women and their households by helping them access financial services, knowledge, and markets. Women’s World Banking, Inc. is classified as a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

After nearly 40 years of work, in 2017 the U.S. operations of Stichting to Promote Women’s World Banking and Friends of Women’s World Banking were consolidated and reconstituted under the entity Women’s World Banking, Inc., to increase Women’s World Banking’s efficiency and efficacy in deploying its resources.

Stichting to Promote Women’s World Banking remains an independent, international support organization incorporated in the Netherlands for the purpose of expanding the economic assets, participation, and power of low-income women. In 2018 SWWB ceased its U.S. operations as a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code. Also in 2018, Friends of WWB/USA, Inc. was dissolved as the organization consolidated its operations under the new entity Women’s World Banking, Inc.